Democrats' "apology" Web page mocks Limbaugh

CNN ^ | March 4, 2009 | Mark Preston, Political Editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

Democrats will continue Wednesday to portray Rush Limbaugh as the spokesman for the Republican Party by launching a Web page that mocks GOP leaders for apologizing to the radio host for criticizing or publicly disagreeing with him.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is hosting the page — www.imsorryrush.com – which allows visitors to create an apology to Limbaugh on behalf of Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Georgia; South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford; or Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

"You and I both know that in reality, you simply want President Obama to fail in this time of economic collapse," reads the fake letter of apology template. "How can I disagree with that? Please accept my sincere apologies, oh great leader of the Republican Party."

Democrats have sought to portray Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican Party and stepped up their efforts last weekend to promote the idea after the radio talk show host told a gathering of conservative political activists to stand strong for their principles. Limbaugh also was unapologetic for saying earlier this year that he hoped President Barack Obama would fail.

"What is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation?" Limbaugh told attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference that met last weekend in Washington, D.C.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Are they truly that stupid or tone deaf?

[DB]

Well the brainiacs on the left are showing their true colors...

[DB]

Oh, I vote option #1.

[Vision Thing]

Nah, they’re just suicidal. After all, they’re simply being self-destructocrats.

[BillyBoy]

They just altered a few words from their letter to DailyKos and MoveOn. A few months ago the RAT websites read: “You and I both know that in reality, you simply want President Bush to fail in this time of economic collapse. How can I disagree with that? Please accept my sincere apologies, oh great leader of the Democrat Party.”

[SolidWood]

Two Minutes Hate. The Democrats’ leader is Big Brother.

[boroman]

The DNC must fear something, or else why would they bother with something like this. I guess they are scared because they know in their hearts and minds Obama’s policies will fail, and in turn so will they.

[SAJ]

A rhetorical question, I assume...

[Nateman]

They keep trying to push the BIG LIE (It usually works) against Rush only to have it blow right back into their faces. Hard to carve a falsehood into people's minds when the truth is known to the 20 million or so that listen to him. If they had been smart they would have picked on a smaller, less adapt, target. Attacks on The John Birch society is a good example of a past successful smear.

[WildcatClan]

This is all about the Rats wanting to portray Rush as the leader of the GOP and then making the nexus to his ordering congressional Pubs to obstruct Obama.

That is pure lunacy but I am sure the lunatics that voted for Obama are more than capable of believing it. The Republicans have to reiterate over and again that they do not have the power nor the means to obstruct anything. The rats are in charge and ready to do their worst.

[strykr]

Nice to know this is all they have to do to take attention away from OBOZO’s “handling” of the economy!! I mean it's not like they want ti brag about how the DOW has tanked since they took the White House. Or how he's spent more in 5 1/2 weeks that Bush in 8 YEARS!! Let them keep poking fun at Rush/GOP and creating a non-issue. Soon the American people what a joke the Demoncrats truly are.

[rbmillerjr]

The commies have successfully taken down many a Republican.

This is no game it is war, they are coming after Rush with the full force of the DemParty, media, and soon it will filter into the entertainment media and schools by their commissars of education.

Let’s kick their azz Rus !!

[Nateman]

I took a look at that web site and as expected they are taking advantage of the ambiguity built in to the statement "We want Obama to succeed". Success for Obama means two things:

1. The country improves.

2. Obama gets his Agenda passed.

If 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive (which they are) then it is impossible for Obama to succeed at both. It's pretty clear that Rush wants the country to succeed and Obamas agenda not to be passed.Of course the RAT's are once again guilty of not telling the whole truth. Big surprise there.

[highlander_UW]

Democrats have always shown a great propensity to stupidity...proof positive...Obama and his Obamanomics, which is just retread Carter.

[Neoliberalnot]

We are seeing the calculated death of capitalism and a free market economy and replacement with a nazi style of socialism. According to the RAT mouthpiece, CNN, the money being wretched from the private sector, as markets fall in unison, is being replaced by handouts from Hussein’s socialists thugs to every sniveling liberal with a tin cup. This is Hussein’s redistribution of wealth that he promised, ie, money leaving the private sector being replaced with money by the government sector. Capitalism will continue to collapse as long as Hussein is in power and nothing will stop this rise of a truely evil ruler. Hussein is doing precisely as Mugabe is doing to Zimbabwe. We haven’t seen nothin yet. I hope people in the private sector realize what is really happening.

[WheresMyBailout]

Exactly ... we never gave Michael Moore the time of day.

[ChetNavVet]

Thanks 2ND Div,

I do find it quite funny that the idiot machine has gone to new lows, so as to prop up Rush as some sort of “Leader man of the Right”, and as funny as it seems, it is a plot, A subversion of our second amendment rights. See, these Nancy Belagosie types need to have a target, Next mayhaps Mark levin?
Hear this: Paint our most Conserv types as ranting on AM talk radio, as supposed “radicals” that lead over 40% of a nation as being opposed to leftist garbage, and you will plainly see that Rush is the main target of the left.
Message to Rush: You were instumental, in revitalizing talk radio, many other persons like myself have opened thier eyes, Through your talk, wit, banter, and humor, You have converted both fence sitters, and a few “no longer idiots” to the cause, I do respect you, I very much admire you, You are far less “The Man”, than the “Voice of a People”.
But you know what my friend, Mr. Limbaugh, attack you as they may, There is no freaking way that the lefties could ever extinguish your voice, for you are in my mind a true patriot, and no way have I ever thought that you were the leader of the republican party, Because “I” would object, not because I’m a registered republican, but because it would mean that you are bound to said policy.
My greatest hope is that all of the good and decent talk show hosts and pundits look out for the rest of us, by continuing to do that which the MSM refuses to do. Which is to inform that portion of the US populous not afraid to touch the radio dial.

[WheresMyBailout]

They’ve been at war with him for 20 years.

[jonrick46]

When are these moron going to get it? This controversy is over. It is done. Yes, there is broad agreement that Obama’s solution to the economy is the wrong one and it not only needs to fail, it needs to be defeated. When are they going to smell some coffee and realize that they have lost the argument? And as they have lost this argument, they will find out what it means to lose when

[nathanbedford]

This feud between Limbaugh and Obama is likely to continue for the foreseeable future because it benefits both sides.

As I published in a previous post, Limbaugh is correct in saying that the attack against him is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook, Rules for Radicals, in which the left is instructed to personalize the opposition and then demonize the fact individual thus destroying the whole opposition movement.

The upside for the Obama team is to divert scrutiny from the flaws of their schemes; to prepare the ground for the censorship of talk radio; to fashion a fall guy for the failure of the rescue plans and the destruction of the economy. As Obama sees it, there is upside and no downside to this tactic. So far, this tactic is working quite well for Obama so there is no incentive on his side not to play out the game.

As for Rush Limbaugh, short-term it is all upside for him because it increases ratings as it makes him the focus of attention and that increases his profits. Moreover, I have no doubt that Limbaugh sees the increased attention as an opportunity to reach an audience of the general public which he might not otherwise have access to at a time when there is no national voice of conservatism and at a time of crying need for conservative sanity which might literally save the Republic from Marxism.

So expect the game to be played out on both sides.

But where lie the interests of conservatism?

I think that depends entirely on the courage of our elected Republican Representatives and our conservative spokesman and, most importantly, on the courage of Republican wannabes. It has been the regrettable history of the Republican Party to abandon its champions when they are attacked with bogus charges by the left. One need only mention a few names to illustrate how the game has been played and to illustrate Republican pusillanimity in the face of these attacks, some of which were quite preposterous: Newt Gingrich; Trent Lott; George Allen; Tom DeLay; Ken Starr; Dan Quayle. (Apologies to those who are omitted by inadvertence from this list of patriotic Americans.) Our record in defending our own is not inspiring.

If we follow the old pattern, Limbaugh will be isolated and cut out from the herd like an old bull and brought down by the pack. I am quite aware that Limbaugh can defend himself as no one else. The point is not Limbaugh's survival but the survival of the Republic. Limbaugh will always retain his support among the base but it is not the base that Obama and Rahm Emanuel are trying to dupe. On the other hand, if Republicans and conservatives rise up in one voice and warn the American people that the assault on Limbaugh is really an assault on a sympatheticfigure of liberty, of free speech, beleaguered and endangered by a sinister movement with dubious roots in radicalism and un-American totalitarian tendencies, there is a chance that the Saul Alinsky principle can be neutralized and even hurled back at these sinister forces.

The attack on Limbaugh can be made a figure of the Obama assault on liberty.

It requires unanimity and vigor so I am not all sanguine that the party or the movement will understand that this is an existential moment for conservatism and for the Republic.

Does Mitt Romney want to be the next nominee? Go to the national press club and indict the Obama administration for its anti-democratic and anti-free-speech threats. Argue that the establishment (drive-by) media is ultimately threatened too by its own dereliction of duty. Deplore the cult of personality that has grown up around Obama and draw the obvious historical parallels. Tell the press that when they take their marching orders every morning by telephone from Rahm Emmanuel, they are unprofessional. Divide the press one from another by pointing out that some have been excluded from this intimacy every morning. Call the press to its historic role. Point out to the press that it has failed utterly in that role during the campaign. Throw down the gauntlet. Know that we have very little to lose, because if matters proceed as they are, candidates like Mitt Romney will have no chance in four years anyway-the entire process will have been warped in Obama's favor.

There are other potential candidates, other wannabes, who can leap to the front of the line by seizing such an opportunity. Mitt Romney is perhaps a bad example because he has much to lose. But there are other candidates who could certainly use the notoriety which will undoubtedly come from such a bold move.

What is the old expression used years ago in typing lessons, "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party"? There is another expression, first uttered by Benjamin Franklin, "if we do not hang together we will most assuredly hang separately."